Limestone statuette of a seated female figure

Limestone statuette of a seated female figure

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The figure, probably female, is seated, her hands on the armrests. She wears a long tunic with red paint on the sleeves and on the edge of the garment. The holes on the sides of the statuette may have held the axle of a chariot. There are representations of the female goddess Astarte on a chariot.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. The geographic regions represented are Greece and Italy, but not as delimited by modern political frontiers: Greek colonies were established around the Mediterranean basin and on the shores of the Black Sea, and Cyprus became increasingly Hellenized. For Roman art, the geographical limits coincide with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The department also exhibits the art of prehistoric Greece (Helladic, Cycladic, and Minoan) and pre-Roman art of Italic peoples, notably the Etruscans.